Bêlier et son jeune maître

Iran, circa 1800, in the Safavid style Watercolour and pencil on vergeure paper. Painting mounted on an album page with a wide ebru margin, a small palmette margin on a black background and a quatrain in nastal'iq cut out. Inscription on the back. Bears an apocryphal signature: Mohammad Bâqir. Total size : 22x30,5cm Size of the drawing : 12,5x19cm Study of a young man and a ram bearing the signature of Mohammad Baqîr Pen and wash on buff paper This drawing is inspired by a series executed by the famous master Reza Abbasi (1565 - 1635), an example of which can be found in the Brooklyn Museum of art in the representation of a young man training a ram, dated 1624 (Inv. n°85.80). A copy of this drawing by the workshop of Reza Abbasi was presented for sale at Christies in London in 2001. The presence on ours of a signature of Muhammad Bâqir is there to suggest that this great painter of the 2nd half of the 18th century would have taken this design from the original executed by Reza Abbasi. Related work: - Study of a young man and a ram, Reza Abbasi, c. 1630, Christie's, London, 1 May 2001, lot 100 - Young man training a ram